Category: Album Reviews – Archive

February 9, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

NU YORICA! (Soul Jazz) 8/10 However you rate Sydney as a racial melting pot it has nothing on New York. There the fire under the pot was hot enough to fuse the styles of music brought by hordes of migrants from scores of countries. A major source was Puerto Rico,…

January 29, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

A Life In A Day (lionsharecords) 10/10 It was a superhuman effort. David Ades was dying of lung cancer when he recorded this album. He knew it would be his last and he made it his best. Who knows what monstrous willpower was required to play the alto saxophone for…

January 21, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

Now This (ECM) 9/10 Gary Peacock, who turned 80 since this album was recorded, remains the preeminent living jazz bassist. He was a part of the 1960s free-jazz explosion with Albert Ayler and helped fashion the very bones of modern piano-trio jazz with Bill Evans, Paul Bley and Keith Jarrett.…